Officials in Ukraine have warned that Russia is massing its forces to launch a massive attack on the capital, Kyiv.
A statement issued by the Ukrainian army said that Russian tanks and infantry forces were advancing in areas near the capital in preparation for the attack.
Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine has deteriorated, where tens of thousands of civilians are trapped under the fire of Russian bombing, suffering from a lack of food supplies.
The number of civilian casualties rose, as men, women and children were killed while fleeing for safety.
An Indian student in the eastern city of Sumy told the BBC he had not eaten a proper meal for more than a week and was having the worst days of his life.
A family who fled the southern port of Mariupol spoke of a week they spent stuck in their home, without heating or electricity and eventually running out of food and water.
Attempts to evacuate civilians from the city of Mariupol failed for the second day in a row. There are reports that conditions there are catastrophic.
And the Russian forces continue their offensive, which has become more indiscriminate than ever.
“A human tragedy”
Poland’s border guards say more than a million people have now crossed the border from Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24.
The Border Guard Service wrote on Twitter: “Today (Sunday) by 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) the number of people who crossed from Ukraine into Poland has exceeded one million. This represents a million human tragedy.”
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 1.5 million people fled Ukraine in just 10 days.
The agency’s High Commissioner, Filippo Grandi, described the situation as the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.
Thousands arrested
Russian authorities and human rights groups reported the arrest of thousands of people during demonstrations across Russia to condemn the war in Ukraine.
Russian media quoted the Interior Ministry as saying that regarding 1,700 people were arrested in Moscow alone.
But the Russian human rights organization “Ofd-Info” reported the arrest of regarding 4,631 people in 64 cities, and the organization says that 13,028 protesters have been arrested in Russia since Moscow invaded Ukraine.
On Saturday, the Russian Interior Ministry warned once morest responding to calls on the Internet to participate in unauthorized demonstrations.
“Russian law requires organizers to seek permission for their gatherings,” says Amnesty International.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, many rallies have taken place all over Russia.
Before the start of the war, Russia demanded security guarantees from Western countries following it saw that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was seeking to expand towards its borders by annexing Ukraine, which Moscow considers a threat to its national security, while Kyiv considers the Russian invasion an “aggression” once morest it.
“Today (Sunday) we are witnessing fairly large protests even in Siberian cities,” Maria Kuznetsova, a spokeswoman for OFID-INFO, told Archyde.com news agency from Tbilisi, Georgia.
The imprisoned Russian dissident, Alexei Navalny, has called for daily protests once morest the war in Russia, Belarus and beyond. Earlier this week, Navalny said Russia should not be a “nation of fearful cowards”.
And launched protests once morest the war on Sunday in more than one country in the world. In Kazakhstan, a Moscow ally, a peaceful demonstration was allowed in Almaty and was attended by regarding 2,000 people.
A demonstration in Brussels on Sunday once morest the war
Anti-war protesters also took to the streets in cities such as Brussels and London.
In Ukraine itself, a demonstration took place in the southern city of Nova Kakhovka, which was taken over by Russian forces.
A video clip from the city in the Kherson region shows protesters calling on the Russians to “go home”. A report stated that five people were wounded in the demonstration.
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